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production of pheromone

...Although called sex hormones when first discovered, these organic substances are actually sex pheromones, chemicals produced by one partner to elicit a sexual response in the other. In
Allomyces (order Blastocladiales) a pheromone named sirenin, secreted by the female gametes, attracts the male gametes, which swim toward the former and fuse with them. In some simple fungi,...